Tin Bird Choir

Tin Bird Choir
Tin Bird Choir
	Tin Bird Choir at Eagleview Concert Series
Background information
Origin	Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States
Genres	Rock, Americana
Years active	2007 - present
Website	www.tinbirdchoir.com
Members	Eric Hurlock; Heather Hurlock; Josh Sceurman; Ellen Houle

Last updated March 07, 2019

Tin Bird Choir is a barn rock band from Chester County Pennsylvania. Eric and Heather Hurlock, Josh Sceurman, Ellen Houle, and Brad Hinton weave the poetry of rural life into urgent melodies and heartbreaking harmonies and pair it all with burning musicality. "Tin Bird Choir's mix of pop hooks, delicate harmonies, and tight playing is a winning blend," says, John Vettese of 88.5 WXPN. Their signature “barn rock” sound has earned them some national attention: Their recent single "Hide My Heart was picked up by SiriusXM The Village; Two songs off their sophomore album Homesteady, “Straight Face” and "Take Me With You When You Go," were picked up by Starbucks and are played in their stores worldwide. Another song off the Homesteady album, “Cheaper, Less Painful,” earned the band a spot as one of the regional finalists in the Mountain Stage Newsong Contest. Homesteady was one of the Top Albums of 2013.

Fully funded by fans through a Kickstarter campaign, Homesteady was recorded in Eric and Heather’s barn in Coventryville, Pennsylvania, by Kevin Killen, and mastered by Glenn Barratt, of MorningStar Studios. Their soulful folk sound earned their first record, Barn Rock, a debut spot at #9 on the Roots Music chart.

Their songs have been played on AAA and folk radio stations across the country ^[1] and have been featured prominently on Philadelphia radio station WXPN.^[2]^[3]^[4] They have appeared at the Philadelphia Folk Festival,^[5] the World Cafe Live, and the Kimmel Center ^[6] in Philadelphia, The Bitter End in New York City,^[7] and coffee houses, clubs, and bars throughout the region.^[8]

WXPN is a non-commercial, public FM radio station licensed to The Trustees of the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania that broadcasts an adult album alternative (AAA) radio format, along with many other format shows. WXPN produces World Cafe, a music program distributed by NPR to many non-commercial stations in the United States. The station's call sign, which is often abbreviated to XPN, stands for "Experimental Pennsylvania Network". The broadcast tower used by WXPN is located at, in the antenna farm complex in the Roxborough section of Philadelphia.

The Philadelphia Folk Festival is a folk music festival held annually at Old Pool Farm in Upper Salford, Pennsylvania, in the vicinity of Philadelphia.

World Cafe is a two-hour-long, nationally syndicated music radio program that originates from WXPN, a non-commercial station licensed to the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States. The program began on October 14, 1991 and was originally distributed by Public Radio International. Since 2005, the show has been distributed by NPR.

Biography

Tin Bird Choir is husband and wife Eric and Heather Hurlock along with musicians Josh Sceurman, Ellen Houle, and Brad Hinton.

In the Spring of 2007 Eric and Heather opened for a local band called The Youngers and after the show they were approached by members of the local musical community, Mike Yesconis, Josh Sceurman and Ellen Houle, who joined them in their barn for picking and playing. Soon TBC was practicing weekly and gigging regularly, playing at venues all around the Philly Metro area. In the Fall of 2009 they released their debut CD, Barn Rock.

In 2016, they started playing with Philly all-star Brad Hinton, who fills out their sound with 3-part harmonies and just the right amount of virtuosic guitar.

They’re receiving a lot of support from Philadelphia's 88.5 WXPN. And the City Paper’s Mary Armstrong, says of the band, “...one local group that should appeal to both sides of the fray [Philadelphia Folk Festival’s changing audience] is the Tin Bird Choir,...”. The Allentown Morning Call says their CD has “...intelligence and originality to anchor vocal harmonies and acoustic picking.”

Philadelphia City Paper was an alternative weekly newspaper in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. The independently owned paper was free and published every Thursday in print and daily online at citypaper.net. Staff reporters focused on labor issues, politics, education and poverty. Critics reviewed the city’s arts, entertainment, literary and restaurant scene. Listings of concerts, art exhibits, dance performances and other events were carried in the paper and in a comprehensive online events calendar.

Discography

Albums

Barn Rock (2009)
Homesteady (2013)

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[1] Barn Rock debuts at No. 9 on radio chart

[2] Philly Local Pick Of the Day 11/02/09

[3] Philly Local Pick Of the Day 8/13/08

[4] Philly Local Pick of the Day 4/7/08

[5] Philadelphia City Paper

[6] Free at the Kimmel Series 10/02/09

[7] New York Songwriters Circle

[8] Phoeniix Review